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{{Infobox Newspaper |
name = Private Eye |
image = [[Image:Private Eye Cover.jpg|thumbnail|centre|200px|[[4 March]] [[2005]] cover of ''Private Eye''. This is a typical example of the magazine's front cover.  The caption refers to the wedding of [[Charles, Prince of Wales|Prince Charles]] and [[Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall|Camilla Parker-Bowles]].]] |
type = Fortnightly [[satire|satirical]] <BR> [[magazine]]-newspaper |
format = [[Magazine]] |
(contracted; show full)ugh (as the editors noted) while politicians are a prime target they "tend to take their medicine like men", and the largest number of lawsuits issue from journalists. For the tenth anniversary issue, the cover showed a cartoon headstone inscribed with a long list of well-known names, and the epitaph "They did not sue in vain".<ref>http://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/covers/full/257_big.jpg</ref>

An unlikely piece of British legal history occurred in the case ''
[[Arkell v. Pressdram]]''. The plaintiff was the subject of an article relating to illicit payments, and the magazine had ample evidence to back up the article.  Arkell's lawyers wrote a letter in which, unusually, they said: "Our client's attitude to damages will depend on the nature of your reply". The response consisted, in part, of the following: "We would be interested to know what your client's attitude to damages would be if the nature of our reply were as follows: Fuck off".  This caused a(contracted; show full)

[[Robert Maxwell]] (Captain Bob) also sued, for the suggestion he looked like a criminal. He won a significant sum. The editor, [[Ian Hislop]], summarised the case: "I've just given a fat cheque to a fat Czech." [[Sonia Sutcliffe]] also sued after allegations that she used her connection to her husband, the Yorkshire Ripper, [[Peter Sutcliffe]], to make money. She won £600,000 which was later reduced to £60,000 on appeal. However, the initial award caused Hislop to quip outside the court: 
''"If this is justice, I'm a banana."''.<ref>{{cite news |
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1617495.stm | title=Private Eye - 40 not out ... yet |
publisher=BBC News |date=October 25, 2001}}</ref>  Readers raised a considerable sum in the "bananaballs fund", and ''Private Eye'' scored a PR coup by donating the surplus to the families of Sutcliffe's victims.

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